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Mitchell Silver, commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, former planning director of Raleigh, and former president of the APA, discusses the aspirations and realities of a long, successful career in planning.
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The 6th Edition of the Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs is now available. The new Guide includes Planetizen's updated ranking of the Top 25 graduate urban planning programs.
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The new "Urban Mobility Report" provides widely-cited congestion cost estimates. However, its analysis is neither comprehensive nor objective. Anybody using these estimates should understand its omissions and biases.
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While transit agency data shows ridership going down, Census data shows ridership going up. Why?
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With a timber rich state and a desire to fight climate change, mass timber and CLT could become Jay Inslee's signature green economy success in Washington State.
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A good friendship is a two-way street. So how come our relationships with places only involve taking and no giving?
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Public transit, with service to joy, freedom, and virtue.
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There is no war on cars. Everybody, including motorists, benefit from a more diverse and efficient transportation system. Let there be peace!
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Gentrification is apparently quite rare—so why do urban affairs commentators devote so much time arguing about it?
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Data generated by travel modes can inform planners and regulators in improving the transportation system, but private mobility companies often restrict their access for concerns about privacy and competition.
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Green building practices are advancing quickly. Here is a sample of best practices in choosing the most sustainable materials for the job.
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Urban park planning and design needs to deliver a lot of community benefit from a small amount of space. The lessons that emerge
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Contrary to popular myth, New York is not drowning in new housing.
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Insights into the mobile app technology used in the practice and study of planning.
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Recent reporting shows the U.S. falling behind its neighbors in both smart city deployments and 5G network rollouts—the latter of which is slated to be the connective tissue of these future cities. The news has some experts on edge.
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Transportation and land use planning decisions affect economic opportunity and mobility—the chance that children become more economically successful than their parents. We can help create more equitable communities.
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Opinion: The Rose City joins the nationwide attack on neighborhood-scale public involvement—and throws its pioneering model of grassroots democracy under the bus.
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It is conventional wisdom that suburbs are more attractive to families with children than cities. But in fact, the most dense urban cores are gaining children to a greater extent than their suburbs.
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Architecture critic Paul Goldberger analyzes the evolution of baseball stadiums and celebrates their essential connection to cities in "Ballpark: Baseball in the American City."
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A few graphs provide insights into factors that affect the amount of motor vehicle travel in a community, and how driving can be reduced.
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The Democratic Party will hold a two-day debate event, starting tonight. It's time to brush up on the positions of the leading candidates on policies and politics relate to housing, climate change, and infrastructure.
